Greece
Nazis lose in Greece; Golden Dawn declared criminal organization
October 7, 2020The crowd at the anti-fascist rally waved banners with slogans including “Fyssas lives, crush the Nazis,” and chanted “The people demand the Nazis in jail.” More than 5,000 people held a similar rally in the northern...
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‘Show Me a Hero’: Greek tragedy and valor from A to Z
March 2, 2020What I loved about playwright Willard Manus’s Show Me a Hero is that it introduced me to Greek freedom fighter Alexandros Panagoulis, a significant historical figure I’d never heard of, and brought back to life the...
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Defeating fascism: Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is collapsing
September 20, 2019Leaders on trial for murder, party headquarters shuttered, and finances in turmoil -- times are tough for Golden Dawn.
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Greece after the bailout: Lessons for the left
August 23, 2018Eight years on and the truth cannot be hidden. The imposition of neoliberal solutions on Greece has been a catastrophe.
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Greek soccer faces FIFA expulsion after recent wave of violence
March 15, 2018In Greek football, violence and corruption are a bit like the national debt: Too hard to pay down.
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